^^can’t I do both?
[quote]Stern wrote:
[quote]Otto the Ecto wrote:
[quote]chillain wrote:
[excerpt from The Last Three Minutes, by Paul Davies]
The date: August 21, 2126
The place: Earth
Across the planet a despairing population attempts to hide. For billions there is nowhere to go. Some people flee deep underground, desperately seeking out caves and disused mine shafts, or take to the sea in submarines. Others go on the rampage, murderous and uncaring. Most just sit, sullen and bemused, waiting for the end.
High in the sky, a huge shaft of light is etched into the fabric of the heavens. What began as a slender pencil of softly radiating nebulosity has swollen day by day to form a maelstrom of gas boiling into the vacuum of space. At the apex of a vapor trail lies a dark, misshapen, menacing lump. The diminutive head of the comet belies its enormous destructive power. It is closing on planet Earth at a staggering 40,000 miles per hour, 10 miles every second, a trillion tons of ice and rock, destined to strike at seventy times the speed of sound.
Mankind can only watch and wait. The scientists, who have long since abandoned their telescopes in the face of the inevitable, quietly shut down their computers. The endless simulations of disaster are still too uncertain, and their conclusions are too alarming to release to the public anyway. Some scientists have prepared elaborate survival strategies, using their technical knowledge to gain advantage over their fellow citizens. Others plan to observe the cataclysm as carefully as possible, maintaining their role as true scientists to the very end, transmitting data to time capsules buried deep in the Earth. For posterity…
The moment of impact approaches. All over the world, millions of people nervously check their watches. The last three minutes.
Directly above ground zero, the sky splits open. A thousand cubic miles of air are blasted aside. A finger of searing flame wider than a city arcs groundward and fifteen seconds later lances the Earth. The planet shudders with the force of ten thousand earthquakes. A shock wave of displaced air sweeps over the surface of the globe, flattening all structures, pulverizing everything in its path. The flat terrain around the impact site rises in a ring of liquid mountains several miles high, exposing the bowels of the Earth in a crater a hundred miles across. The wall of molten rock ripples outward, tossing the landscape about like a blanket flicked in slow motion.
Within the crater itself, trillions of tons of rock are vaporized. Much more is splashed aloft, some of it flung out into space. Still more is pitched across half a continent to rain down hundreds or even thousands of miles away, wreaking massive destruction on all beneath. Some of the molten ejecta falls into the ocean, raising huge tsunamis that add to the spreading turmoil. A vast column of dusty debris fans out into the atmosphere, blotting out the sun across the whole planet. Now the sunlight is replaced by the sinister, flickering glare of a billion meteors, roasting the ground below with their searing heat, as displaced material plunges back from space into the atmosphere…
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*Jizzes pants.[/quote]
Aye. In that sort of scenario I’m just going to accept my fate as a doomed ant, hug my woman hard and give a stiff finger to the sky.
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Not much anyone can do, except climb up on the roof with a bottle of tequila and watch the fireworks.
[quote]Loudog75 wrote:
^^can’t I do both?[/quote]
Man you know I have read so many books in life this made me think of one that I read in the 80’s and early 90’s and for the life of me cannot remember the author or titles.
Series of books where end of the world and do not even remember how. However protagonist was a military guy who ends up banding together a military group and roaming the country. Both saving communities and taking out bad guys. I remember that he had tank divisions and Mortar divisions. Now I am on a mission.
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
Nobody is discussing the marshall law and attempt to herd the populous that will no doubt ensue such a catastrophic event.
The thing with this scenario is that unless most people are instantly killed off, “technology” will rebound relatively quickly. Maybe not at the digital level it is now, but mechanical technology.
It’s already been invented and proven, it’s not like someone will have to reinvent the combustion energy. Many people understand that once some kind of equilibrium is reached (ie. those that rely on electric devices and prescriptions to live, elderly and sick die off, weak children, infection die offs, etc) and crops start growing that primitive diesel/organic fuels can be used to power simple motors as well as steam. It would probably take years, but given that power technology has been around for well over a hundred year, the rebound wouldn’t take forever.
People will still understand that germs exist, not like before the late 1800’s when “germ theory” was still getting batted around.
I mean, people in third world countries get by somehow. There would be a nasty population adjustment period though…[/quote]
Very true on the plague scenerio Steely its not like being set back to the middle ages.
I believe you will have two types of people those who want to rebuild and those that love the madness and will rape and pillage. [/quote]
Adventure Derek, the latter enjoy adventure. Lets call it nice things.
I don’t even think I’d want to live long in a world where it all came back down to how hard one guy can club the other one in the head.
I hope that I fall into ice after the power goes out and I sleep in the ice for about 300 years till people develop money and a division of labor again and then we can all get back to work and not mess about with discussions about how hardcore we are.
[quote]Nards wrote:
I don’t even think I’d want to live long in a world where it all came back down to how hard one guy can club the other one in the head.
I hope that I fall into ice after the power goes out and I sleep in the ice for about 300 years till people develop money and a division of labor again and then we can all get back to work and not mess about with discussions about how hardcore we are.[/quote]
You would just be sad cause then we couldnt develop space travel and you could not be the Real Captain Kirk. 
[quote]Nards wrote:
I don’t even think I’d want to live long in a world where it all came back down to how hard one guy can club the other one in the head.
I hope that I fall into ice after the power goes out and I sleep in the ice for about 300 years till people develop money and a division of labor again and then we can all get back to work and not mess about with discussions about how hardcore we are.[/quote]
Estrogen Nation.
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
I don’t even think I’d want to live long in a world where it all came back down to how hard one guy can club the other one in the head.
I hope that I fall into ice after the power goes out and I sleep in the ice for about 300 years till people develop money and a division of labor again and then we can all get back to work and not mess about with discussions about how hardcore we are.[/quote]
You would just be sad cause then we couldnt develop space travel and you could not be the Real Captain Kirk. :)[/quote]
Yeah! Wake me up when the New Society has gotten that far!
[quote]Nards wrote:
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
I don’t even think I’d want to live long in a world where it all came back down to how hard one guy can club the other one in the head.
I hope that I fall into ice after the power goes out and I sleep in the ice for about 300 years till people develop money and a division of labor again and then we can all get back to work and not mess about with discussions about how hardcore we are.[/quote]
You would just be sad cause then we couldnt develop space travel and you could not be the Real Captain Kirk. :)[/quote]
Yeah! Wake me up when the New Society has gotten that far!
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10-4 I got your back Nards as long as I can drive the Enterprise.
[quote]HoustonGuy wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
I don’t even think I’d want to live long in a world where it all came back down to how hard one guy can club the other one in the head.
I hope that I fall into ice after the power goes out and I sleep in the ice for about 300 years till people develop money and a division of labor again and then we can all get back to work and not mess about with discussions about how hardcore we are.[/quote]
Estrogen Nation.[/quote]
Hey…I could eat my way through a dozen of you guys and it ain’t even the apocalypse TILL I SAY SO!
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
I don’t even think I’d want to live long in a world where it all came back down to how hard one guy can club the other one in the head.
I hope that I fall into ice after the power goes out and I sleep in the ice for about 300 years till people develop money and a division of labor again and then we can all get back to work and not mess about with discussions about how hardcore we are.[/quote]
You would just be sad cause then we couldnt develop space travel and you could not be the Real Captain Kirk. :)[/quote]
Yeah! Wake me up when the New Society has gotten that far!
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10-4 I got your back Nards as long as I can drive the Enterprise. [/quote]
Sure! You can be the gay Asian guy!
[quote]Nards wrote:
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
I don’t even think I’d want to live long in a world where it all came back down to how hard one guy can club the other one in the head.
I hope that I fall into ice after the power goes out and I sleep in the ice for about 300 years till people develop money and a division of labor again and then we can all get back to work and not mess about with discussions about how hardcore we are.[/quote]
You would just be sad cause then we couldnt develop space travel and you could not be the Real Captain Kirk. :)[/quote]
Yeah! Wake me up when the New Society has gotten that far!
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10-4 I got your back Nards as long as I can drive the Enterprise. [/quote]
Sure! You can be the gay Asian guy!
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Yeah, sorry you walked into that one!
[quote]Nards wrote:
Yeah, sorry you walked into that one![/quote]
I was thinking of Galaxy Quest and being the cool black guy.
I understand completely… it was one of those things that sounded right when you said it…like Shooet McGavin’s “I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast!”
[quote]Nards wrote:
I understand completely… it was one of those things that sounded right when you said it…like Shooet McGavin’s “I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast!”[/quote]
Fucking internet!
[quote]Nards wrote:
Fucking internet![/quote]
Aw fukk I know that guy!
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]Nards wrote:
Fucking internet![/quote]
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LMAO